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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Hamburger, post: 3956526, member: 17940&quot;]A couple of questions, potentially going well beyond jewellery but hopefully not out of place here:</p><p><br /></p><p>(1.) A few online merchants offer DVD compilations of scanned books, along the lines of &quot;124 books on xyz&quot; or &quot;89 vintage books&quot; on numerous subjects, including jewellery, gold and silver work, hallmarks. The prices are typically very reasonable (under ten pounds/dollars/euros including postage/shipping) and the books are old enough for this to be legal. At first glance it looks like a good and inexpensive way to acquire some useful works of reference. Can anyone comment on contents, quality and usability?</p><p><br /></p><p>(2a). Can anyone recommend any multilingual dictionaries or terminology lists? Back in my translating days I used specialist English-German/German-English dictionaries for specialist fields (e.g. chemistry, finance, law). Are there any similar works people here refer to (for any language pairs)?</p><p><br /></p><p>(2b). Can anyone point to resources for comparing terms used in different places to refer to styles and/or periods? I&#039;m thinking both of overlapping terms (Jugendstil - Art Deco) and of terms specific to particular countries or empires (Georgian, Biedermeier).</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks in advance for any input![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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